if you had a friend that comes to you today and asks for some advice about getting into crypto
what what's a piece of advice you would give to a new cryptocurrency investor coming into space
yeah i think um research research research um i think that the principles of projects
and you know and we've been challenging this with transing is around the use case yeah um
we need to be really clear around the utility and the ability to influence change um
and as an investor generally um you know there are some exceptions but you need to be really
clear around your value proposition and what you expect to see from a project um the inevitability
of um you know gains and subtraction you know within any any project is based on the
fundamentals of a project so i think that's the key for me ta graphs um red green is all great
um but if it comes back to bring in the principle and the fundamentals of the project and what the
team have behind it um i think is a really great starting point um and consume what you want to
consume so there's you know there's a there's a lot of investment there's a lot of emotional
investment in in crypto and i mean anywhere that you're trying to utilize your your knowledge and
expertise to um you know create either wealth or or an experience for yourself that you may not
otherwise have um but be really selective around the content you choose to consume as well and
and really take each as a individual point of view um to allow you to make a collective um you know
decision around your investments so research research research and also take the emotion out
of it if your friend asks you a follow-up question or besides the white paper besides the website
like what research outlets do you personally use like what would some you recommend that you like
yeah i like the um the some of the more technology focused so i like to to see um you
know things like it news and these sorts where not specifically just blockchain but you know
that um where there's a conversation being had outside of our ecosystem is something that you
need to keep an eye on because what that shows is and you say with it um ripple and you see it
with these guys that are making headlines that um there there is a um a real need for consuming
this content and you know that there's change of foot once that's actually happening so i wouldn't
necessarily be confined to you know the the crypto first um articles and and publications but um
clearly it's a really good mechanism to use where you can see the momentum that's being gathered
across some of those technology and it's more technical focused publications so i like to keep
in those um and yeah usually generally trends and the light come up um but look twitter as well and
you know seeing seeing you know guys talking about projects at a granular level an organic
level you know through conversations like this is a really good way to understand the team that
you're working with and who you're investing in um so it has to work for you as well so um you know
i think you need to find your right balance and find a source of source of information that yeah
you want to consume and consume as much of it as you want and then you know i like that you said
you know look at the team i assume you mean you know can they execute what they're planning to do
what do you look for when you're researching a team is it the past experience how do you define
or how do you look at a good team versus a bad team or how do you think about it
yeah i don't think um and for for me his investor is not too to judge whether they're good or bad
but how what do they bring in the tangible uh pieces of their either experience or
motivation or expertise so they're generally the three things um what have they done in the
past to prove you know how how they may or have a reflection of how they may go in the future
the expertise that they have so the industries they've been in the projects they've delivered
um and then what their motivation is around the project um generally if you can get you
know two out of three of those uh sort of 80 percent or more in your own head
then generally you're going to be into an understanding that the team
behind it is able to execute the plan they have because generally if you've got a team of 10 or
20 or 50 um most will be able to leverage each other's experiences and skills to make up that
three sort of phase approach so yeah definitely experience motivation and then the expertise